Katherine Skiba

Writer

Katherine Skiba is the Chicago Tribune’s Washington correspondent. A third-generation Chicagoan, she reports on the Illinois members of Congress, the White House, the Obama family, elections and a variety of stories. She has reported from more than 30 states in the U.S. and 16 foreign countries. Earlier she was a senior writer at U.S. News & World Report and held several positions at the Milwaukee Journal, including Washington correspondent. She received her B.A. in journalism from Marquette University and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She has received several journalism awards, including Marquette’s By-Line Award for career achievement. She has discussed politics and government on CNN, C-SPAN, PBS’s “NewsHour,” MSNBC, Fox Business News and other outlets. She is a member of the White House Correspondents’ Association and the National Press Club, where she formerly chaired its Speakers Committee. She is the author of “Sister in the Band of Brothers: Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.”

Recent Articles

More than a year after former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. started a divorce proceeding, his acrimonious split from ex-Ald. Sandi Jackson is headed to trial in the nation's capital next year after the two ex-felons failed to come to terms despite the help of a $200-an-hour mediator. After the...

Months after he said he'd started to quietly work to contact Russian hackers to look for a cache of Hillary Clinton's emails, Peter W. Smith called The Wall Street Journal on May 4 to explain. The next day, the longtime Republican operative and donor checked into a hotel near the Mayo Clinic, far...

A Republican donor and operative from Chicago's North Shore who said he had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's missing emails from Russian hackers killed himself in a Minnesota hotel room days after talking to The Wall Street Journal about his efforts, public records show. In mid-May, in a room...

When America celebrates its 241st birthday Tuesday, the country will come alive with music, parades, cookouts and fireworks, from sea to shining sea. On the job in Washington, D.C., though, will be two U.S. soldiers who grew up in Chicago's suburbs, both longtime military professionals who instead...

Former federal prosecutor John Lausch is President Donald Trump's pick to serve as the next U.S. attorney in the Chicago-based Northern District of Illinois, sources said. Lausch, 46, has not been formally nominated and the White House hasn't publicly named him. By tradition, Sens. Dick Durbin and...

The search for a U.S. attorney in Chicago has narrowed as the Trump administration has sent the name of its top candidate to Illinois' two Democratic senators, Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, for consideration. The finalist, who has not been publicly identified, is believed to be one of three men...

Several former federal prosecutors have emerged as finalists to be the next U.S. attorney in Chicago, but how the selection process will ultimately play out between the Trump administration and the state's two Democratic senators is a wild card that few venture to predict. After weeks of vetting...

Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin blasted Senate Republicans' new health care proposal Thursday shortly after it was released, saying "you can put a lace collar on a pit bull and it's still a mean dog." Durbin made the comment from the Senate floor, also noting that President Donald Trump previously...